Sex Offenders - Judge strikes down law limiting where sex offenders can live

Judge strikes down law limiting where sex offenders can live (Asbury Park Press)
A judge on Tuesday struck down a Cherry Hill ordinance that places tight restrictions on where in the town convicted sex offenders may live. The ruling echoes a similar ruling from another judge last fall that struck down a sex-offender residency law in Cape May County's Lower Township. Neither ruling affects the more than 40 similar local laws that have been adopted across New Jersey in the last ...

Accord on Bill to Detain Sex Offenders (New York Times)
New York is poised to join more than a dozen states that continue to detain sex offenders after they have finished serving their prison sentences.

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